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Industrial and other Manmade Disasters
Flood threat looms amid Covid-19 in Bihar
Posted on 23 Jun, 2020 03:09 PMBihar’s annual floods are right around the corner and there is a fear that the flood hazard will collide with the Covid-19 pandemic and amplify it in a manner that emergency responses to both will get disrupted. The state’s strategy to mitigate the effects of flooding needs to be updated in light of the deadly pandemic.
![An aerial view of flood affected areas in Kosi river, Bihar on August 28, 2008 (Image: Publi.Resource.Org; Flickr Commons (CC BY 2.0))](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bihar_floods_2.jpg?itok=6mJGI6sa)
Elected women leaders of gram panchayats: Critical roles in Covid-19 response
Posted on 17 Jun, 2020 01:33 PMRadha Devi, the sarpanch of Bhadsiya, Nagaur tehsil, Rajasthan dissuaded the principal of the government school from forcing girl students to fetch water for mid-day meal preparation during school hours and sent these girls back to their classrooms.
![Women are emerging as effective leaders who can play constructive roles in containing the Covid-19 spread (Image: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/vandana.jpg?itok=Vail2rub)
Battling Covid-19 in Jharkhand
Posted on 11 Jun, 2020 04:07 PMJharkhand is a state dominated by tribal communities located in eastern part of India. Agriculture, NTFP (Non-timber forest produce) collection and daily wage laborers are the prime source of income for rural Jharkhand.
![Distribution of ration to cope with the impacts of the pandemic (Image Source: WOTR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jharkhand6.jpg?itok=_fLcYYpI)
Northeast fights Covid-19
Posted on 09 Jun, 2020 11:34 PMWhile Covid-19 has left many countries including India in the line of fire, the situation in India is now getting particularly alarming with the number of people infected by Covid-19 rising at a rapid pace.
![Ration distribution to the migrants (Image Source: Sunbird Trust)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ne_covid.jpg?itok=5K3Rf9fP)
Living through Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19: Climate change and water security
Posted on 07 Jun, 2020 11:33 AMThe nomenclature of cyclones and hurricanes is developed much in advance through multilateral processes in the region. The name Amphan (Sky in Thai and Akash in Bangla) was chosen from a long list of potential disasters long back.
![Millions of people in India and Bangladesh lost their means of employment, food, water and homes in one go during the cyclone (Image: Srikanth Kolari/ActionAid India)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/amphan-actionaid_0.jpg?itok=v5DT_Pc5)
Lockdown puts citymakers at risk
Posted on 28 May, 2020 01:22 PMSuddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide lockdown, the migrants who built our cities and our economies were forced to take the torturous walk away from the cities to their homes in rural India.
![A worker at a construction site (Image: ILO/ Joydeep Mukherjee; NC-ND 3.0 IGO License)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/construction_worker-ilo-asiapacific.jpg?itok=6naFzw13)
Cyclone Amphan wreaks havoc in West Bengal
Posted on 27 May, 2020 08:33 AMCyclone Amphan causes widespread destruction in West Bengal
![A cyclonic storm that hit India in 2016 (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cyclone_tn_0.jpg?itok=KK0kW-wx)
Covid-19 could push 260 million Indians into poverty: Research
Posted on 20 May, 2020 10:42 AMNearly 260 million Indian could be pushed to poverty due to Covid-19: Researchers
![Covid-19 could push 260 million Indians into poverty (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/24260768078_4f04b89c73_c.jpg?itok=Vp-4MhqH)
Jharkhand launches scheme to revive rural economy
Posted on 13 May, 2020 02:32 PMJharkhand government launches three schemes to revive rural economy under the MGNREGA
![Jharkhand launches scheme to revive rural economy. Image for representation only. (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/24413706476_56b2c6357f_c.jpg?itok=DBC-niMj)
Need to build inclusive cities in the post-pandemic world
Posted on 12 May, 2020 08:36 PMWhen migrants headed home after Covid-19 lockdown 1.0, Sarojini was suddenly caught off-guard. She decided against moving, after an initial urge to leave for her village in Samastipur, Bihar. Her two sons stay with her at Delhi, doing daily wage labour work, while she works as a domestic help.
![Migrants on their way home during the countrywide lockdown (Image: Stranded Workers Action Network)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/swan-report-image.jpg?itok=5YRoOVvk)